Snap fastener



' Patented Nov. 17, 1925,

UNITED STATE-s y1,562,190 'PATENT OFFICE.

v DANIEL I. REITER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 BAU FASTENER COMPANY, OF.'

' PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, A CORPORATION OF- RHODE ISLAND.

' SNAP FASTENER.

vApplication. filed February 7, 1924. Serial No. 691,131.

l10 snap fasteners well adapted for use as a rug fastener although also applicable to snap fasteners of more general application.

Onebject of the invention is to provide a snap fastener of the type comprising aliead and a flexible socket, the socket'being l""constructed in a simple and inexpensive manner, avoiding the use of unnecessary 4 parts whereby the cost of material and labor 1nassembling may be reduced -to a mini- 20 mum, without sacrificing the effectiveness of the finished article. i Referring to the accompanying drawings illustrating the preferred and other forms of 'the' invention, and in which like parts are designated by the same reference characters in the different views:

tion of an assembled snap fastener embodying the invention in a form adapted for use as a rug fastener.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a snap fastener embodying the invention in a form adapted'to secure two pieces of leather, fabric, or other material. Fig. 3 is' an enlarged plan view" of the socket forming a part of the fastener vdisclosed in Fig.

. Fig. 4 is an enlarged view lin cross-section of the socket, as shown in Fig. .3.

Fi s. 5 and 6 are views corresponding respectively with Figs. Sand 4, but illustrate a modified form ofthe socket. l Figs. 7, 8, 9, and 11 illustrate the resilient element of the socket in various stages of manufacture, beginningA with a blank and ending with the finished article. Fig. 12 is an enlarged crosssectional view of a modified .form of head adapte'dfor u se with the socket members shown in Figs. 8 to 6 inclusive. l

Referring first to Figs. 1, 3, and 4, 2O designatesa head and l.21 designates .a socket, the two parts co-operating to form a sna 'fastener in which the invention is embo iedrl yThe head may be worked ber into engaging relation with the resilient from any suitable material to .aform adapted to b e secured to the floor by means of an ordinary screw 22 (Fig-1). This hea'd and screw ma be separable, or'if preferred, the h ead an screw may be constructed as a slngle 'integral element, or as two-elements held in mutually fixed relation seas to be equivalent to a' single element. A head 20', of the last mentioned type, is illustrated in Fig. 12, in fixed relation with-the screw- 22 Thescrew by'which the headgis' secured-to the floor, or other object, 'maybe either offl the, usual wood-screw type, asindicate'dn'.

Fig. 1, or of the machine-,screw ty-pe, as indicate'd in Fig. 12, the latter.l form 'bein adapted for engagement with la' threadefl@ floor plate not shown.

The socket (Figs'.3 and 4) comprises af-ff" resilient element `23 'and a mountin in any appropriate manner as, for example,

by lugs or fingers25, which may be struck i up from the material of the 'mounting memelement.

- The resilient element 23, which alone, als` i well as in combination with the other elements of the snap `fastener, constitutes an important element of the invention, 4comprises a ring of brass, or other appropriate from the vmit the free passage of the head 20 through the mounting element into engagement with the resilient element. This head 20 should be of sufiicient diameter to slightly flex the tongues 27 when forced through the resilient of rolled member, 24 therefor` which may be secure together element of the socket, and should be of an undercutform as indicated in Fig. 1, so as to be yieldingly held in engaging relation with t e socket after it has been snapped through the opening between the fingers 27 to its assembled osition.

The'fingers 2 may bev bentl to any ap' propriate form. As indicated in Fig. 4, the tongues are of such form that they do not pro]ect beyond the plane o-f that surface of fopening within the tongues 27 of A-the re silient element.- In Fig. 6 is disclosed a tongues dnot extend beyond the inner sur-'f face'of 4the mounting element, the opening in which need be but a'triie larger than the modified' form' of .resilient element having 'tongues' 27 the end portions -of 'which exy ten'd beyond the inner surface. of the mounting member, these portions of the tongues and the outer surface of the mounting mem-- ber being in substantially the same plane. Ingthis orm of the invention, the opening in ,the mountingmember must be off-sulfiv cient diameterlto provide for theextended tongue portion and leave sufficientclear space to permit them to be flexed when the head of the snap fastener is pressed through the o-peningbetween the tongues.

\ y drawnor stampedl into a dished-form 30,.

The resilient element 23 may be constructed in any appropriate manner. One satisfactory method of producing a resilient vring of the character described is illustrated in Figs. 7`to 1l inclusive. Starting--witha plane disk 29, Fig. 7, the same may be Fig. 8, after which a star-shaped opening 3l may be stamped or cut from the dished i portion, said opening comprising aseries of Aradial' slots 32,.separating the remaining parts of the dished portion into an annularseries of inwardly-'extending tongues 271A.

These tongues may then be turned upwardly or into the dished part ofthe ring into the positions.illustrated-at 27 Fig. 10. The

. tongues may' then be rolled outwardlyand into the dished portion ofthe ring to their .iinal.form, as indicated atj'27, Fig. 11.

tThe Aresilient ring 23 and its mounting.

. member 24, when assembled to produce the resilient socket 21, .may be secured to the rug or other article 33, which is to be heldin place by means4 of a clampingringjSi.

' (Fig. l)V having prongs 35 which maybe .passedth'rough openings 36 in the mount-ingl element, and' clinched into engaging relation with its end surface. The openings in the mounting element, which are formed in element is secured in place, may be -made use of'as the openings 36 to receive the prongs 35.- v The modification illustrated in Fig. 2 is a form of snap fastener adapted to ,secure two pieces of leather, fabric, or other mate-- rial, in a manner appropriate for-use asa garment fastener, .OI in the fastening-of 'parts of carriage trimmings, and the like.

This Vmodification comprises va head 20,

.which may be secured to a sheet of leather or. othermaterial 37 "'Lhy means-of a clamping element 22". The socket 21" may be secured to another sheet of leather, or other Iin any appropriate manner.4

of the lugs 2'5 -whereby the opening 38 and the three openings 36 vform fourj'openmgs in lthe'mounting element by.,meanslof which it may be sewed to leather or other material 33, as indicated at 39A Fig. 2.

.It will be apparent t at the resilient ring y23' and the mounting member 24 form a highly practical and' eficientresilient socket of exceedingly simple construction, which maybe produced at a minimum cost of material and `workmanship.

Although the drawings, illustrating the invention, have been described as enlarged .views of the snap4 fastener, meaning that* they represent-a fastener larger than that in common use, 1t will bei understood thatv for very` heavy service, lfasteners as large or larger than that ofthe scale to which the drawings are. made, would come within scope of tlns mvention. f

The invention isV not' intended to be limited to the specific form in which it is herein the shown and described by Way of illustration,-y

appended claims. IThat I claim is :f

socket comprising av ring. having a yielding but is'intended to include modi'cations and variations thereof within the scope of the.

. I 95. l. A lresilient socket adapted to'serve as one element of a separable fastener, said' -inneraportion and a relatively unyielding outer POrtOnyan annular mounting 'member 100.

having an opening concentricwith said ring 'v andof a diameter greaterthanthe internal diameter of said ring, and a plurality *of tongues, engaging the relatively unyielding portiongof said ring to holdfsaidring and mounting -member in associated relation,

.said tongues being formed by.striking up.

portions of the material of said mounting member nearits outer .periphery and thusproviding a series of spaced openings to,

receivel fastening elements of a socket attaching means.

2. Afrsilient-ring adapted'to serve as 'an 'element-of. a separable fastener, s'aid ring p comprising a dished diskof appropriate l striking. up the'lugs 25 by which the resilient material open at the center and provided-' with aseries of radial slots/extending outwardly from its inner portion thereby sep- :arating the dished portion of said disk into an annular series 'of inwardly extending tongues, saidtongues being rolled upwardly and outwardly into the dished portion of forming an annular series of independent "said disk, theirends being left free, thereby' .4.'

spring elements having smoothly rounded element of a separable fastener, saidl ring l comprising a dished disk of appropriate material open at the center and provided with a series of radial slots extending outwardly from its innerportion thereby separating the dished portion of said disk into an annular lseries of inwardly extending tongues, said tongues being rolled upwardly, outwardly and downwardly into the dislied portion of said disk, their ends being left free, thereby forming'an' annular 4series of 10 spring elements independent havingouter portion. y

In Witness whereof, I, have hereuntov signed my name.

DANIEL I. REITER)4 

